[GRASSLIST:2359] Microsoft SFU 3.5 and GRASS

Dear Grass-users

Has anyone had experience of using Microsoft's Services For Unix 3.5,
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/default.asp ? I'm wondering whether
GRASS could be made to run under SFU, with a suitable X-server, as I'd
quite like to use GRASS for teaching purposes (and our University doesn't
have a Linux/Unix cluster room on which to run GRASS directly).

Best wishes
Roy

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Roy Sanderson
Centre for Life Sciences Modelling
Porter Building
University of Newcastle
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 191 222 7789

r.a.sanderson@newcastle.ac.uk
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/clsm

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These are network services, adding to print services for Unix, etc. I think what you want is the grass installation for windows using the X-servers/grass files that can be downloaded from the Grass site. I set this up several times (following the instructions provided EXACTLY) and ran identical grass installations on both a linux and a win 2000 box.

Roy Sanderson wrote:

Dear Grass-users

Has anyone had experience of using Microsoft's Services For Unix 3.5,
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/default.asp ? I'm wondering whether
GRASS could be made to run under SFU, with a suitable X-server, as I'd
quite like to use GRASS for teaching purposes (and our University doesn't
have a Linux/Unix cluster room on which to run GRASS directly).

Best wishes
Roy

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Roy Sanderson
Centre for Life Sciences Modelling
Porter Building
University of Newcastle
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 191 222 7789

r.a.sanderson@newcastle.ac.uk
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/clsm

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On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 08:39:06AM +0000, Roy Sanderson wrote:

Has anyone had experience of using Microsoft's Services For Unix 3.5,
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/default.asp ? I'm wondering whether
GRASS could be made to run under SFU, with a suitable X-server, as I'd
quite like to use GRASS for teaching purposes (and our University doesn't
have a Linux/Unix cluster room on which to run GRASS directly).

What reason would there be to prefer this over Cygwin?
You can run GRASS with Cygwin.